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Palaeortyx
Palaeortyx gallica (Milne-Edwards 1869)
Late Cretaceous (Messinian) · 27.3–5.3 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Palaeortyx gallica is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 27.3–5.3 million years ago. It was a granivore. It was named by (Milne-Edwards 1869). The species is represented by 11 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~36%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 11 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Palaeortyx sits in deep time
Palaeortyx
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Palaeortyx's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.